The United States Senate just passed the hate crimes bill. Voting on cloture to end debate, the Senate voted 60-39, then proceeded to a voice vote to attach the bill as an amendment to the Department of Defense Re-Authorization bill.
The House has already passed a virtually identical hate crimes bill. President Bush has threatened to veto any hate crimes legislation. I have not yet heard of any response from the White House from today’s vote in the Senate.
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Personal note: I am without internet for the time being in my apartment here in Charlotte. I’ve found a nice little coffee shop where I can take a little time to do a brief update like this one. Starting Monday, I’ll be working 9am-6pm at my new job so I’ll have internet access then. If you need to contact me before then, email isn’t the best way to do it; call me instead (all contact info on my contact page).
September 29th, 2007 at 12:43 am
Crawford has my vote also mike barber as you see is ant-gay and total did not surport us, sorry but mike hates gays so my vote is for Crawford